Colour photograph of Eilidh Sheumais Bhain in Bail` Ur.
Eilidh MacDonald (Eilidh Sheumais Bhain) outside her house in Bail` Ur, Balephuil, photographed by Morton Boyd in the 1940s or 1950s.
2003.18.1
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1999.117.11
Colour photograph of a painting by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
Painting of Balephuil by Duncan MacGregor Whyte.
1999.94.8
Black and white postcard of Balephuil.
Postcard of Balephuil with Traigh Bhi and Kennavara in the background.
2002.190.2
Newspaper cutting about Martyn Kennedy, grandson of John MacPhail, Baelphuil.
Martyn Kennedy, son of Iain and Irene Kennedy, grandson of John MacPhail, Ardmay, Balephuil, has won the first Oatbridge Agricultural College travel award to study beef production in Canada.
2002.188.14
Photocopied letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893.
Letter from the factor Hugh MacDiarmid dated 20/3/1893 to the Duke`s chamberlain about assistance to roof Archibald MacLean`s house in Cornaigbeg, the selling of a cottar`s house in Balephuil to pay for funeral expenses and another cottar family setting up residence in a byre in Balevullin.
2002.188.15
Photocopied letter from Edinburgh solicitors Lindsay Howe & Co dated 20/3/1893 to the Duke of Argyll`s chamberlain.
Advice about the selling of a cottar`s house in Balephuil by relatives of the deceased and a family of cottars setting up residence in a byre in Balevullin.
2002.188.16
Photocopied letter from Edinburgh solicitors Lindsay Howe & Co dated 12/4/1893 to the Duke of Argyll`s chamberlain.
Advice re the demolition of the house of deceased cottar Flora Lamont in Balephuil.
2000.28.13
Black and white postcard of a thatched house.
Thatched house in Balephuil.
1997.234.1
Audio cassette of a BBC Radio programme with Dr John MacInness talking to Hugh MacLean and Donald Archie Kennedy about Donald Sinclair of Balephuil recorded in 1995.
BBC Radio programme broadcast in 1995 with Dr John MacInnes of the Scottish School of Studies talking to Hugh MacLean and Donald Archie Kennedy about the life and songs of Donald Sinclair (Dhòmhnall Chaluim Bhain) of Balephuil, with extracts of previous recordings of Domhnall Chaluim Bhain singing his own songs and talking about Captain Donald MacKinnon and the Great China Tea Race, second sight, curses and healing powers.
BBC program Rèidio air a chur a mach ann an 1995 le Dotair Iain Mac Aonghais a Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba a bruidhinn ri Eòghann Mac ’illeathainn agus Dòmhnall Èairdsidh Mac Ualraig mu beatha agus òrain Dhòmhnaill Chaluim Bhàin a Baile Phuill, le giorradan seann clàran de Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin a’ seinn òrain, a’ bruidhinn mu ’n Sgiobair Dòmhnall Mac Fhionghainn agus an Reis Mhòr an Ti Shina, an dath shealladh, guidheachan agus comas leigheis.
1997.235.1
Audio cassette recording of Seumas na Croige with Alan Boyd.
Alan Boyd talks to James MacDonald (Seumas na Croige) of West Hynish about his sea-faring days and being shipwrecked in World War I, his schooldays at Balemartine School, the people of West Hynish and Bail’ Ur, their nicknames and genealogy, fishing and different types of seaweed, thatched houses, healing powers, Captain Donald MacKinnon of the Great China Tea Race, and place-names in Balephuil and West Hynish. Gàidhlig neo-mhodail: Tha Ailean Bòid a’ bruidhinn ri Seumas Mac Dhòmhnaill (Seumas na Croige) as na Cùiltean mu na làithean aige aig fairge agus mar a chaidh am bàta air an robh e air na sgeirean ’sa Cheud Chogadh, làithean sgoile ann am Baile Mhàrtainn, muinntir nan Cùiltean agus am Bail’ Ùr, a far-ainm agus an sloinneadh aca, iasgach, deifir sheòrsa feamainn, taighean tugha, comasan leigheis, an sgiobair Dòmhnall Mac Fhionghainn, fear Reis Mhòr an Ti Shina agus ainmean-aite ann am Baile Phuill agus na Cùiltean